# Gale Finance (remote · www.gale.finance)

Risk and return metrics for stocks, ETFs, crypto and commodities, with citable Gale Finance sources.

- Trust score: 71/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `www.gale.finance`: 71/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/finance-gale-market-metrics/www.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/finance-gale-market-metrics/www)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://www.gale.finance/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 68/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 875 tokens (~175/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Gale Finance MCP server?

Gale Finance is a hosted endpoint at https://www.gale.finance/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http finance-gale-market-metrics 'https://www.gale.finance/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "finance-gale-market-metrics": {
      "url": "https://www.gale.finance/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "finance-gale-market-metrics": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.gale.finance/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.finance-gale-market-metrics]
url = "https://www.gale.finance/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "finance-gale-market-metrics": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://www.gale.finance/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add finance-gale-market-metrics --url 'https://www.gale.finance/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  finance-gale-market-metrics:
    url: "https://www.gale.finance/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "finance-gale-market-metrics": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://www.gale.finance/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add finance-gale-market-metrics -t streamable-http -u 'https://www.gale.finance/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "finance-gale-market-metrics": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.gale.finance/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-04 (score 70, 0)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-11-03 (score 70)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `get_risk_return_metrics` (~184 tokens)

Risk and return metrics for an asset

Gale Finance's published return, CAGR, volatility, Sharpe, Sortino and max drawdown for one asset (stock, ETF, crypto, or commodity), on its 1Y window and its long window (5Y or since inception), each with a one-line method note and the canonical Gale page to cite. Example: "What's the Sortino ratio of gold?". Computed metrics only; no prices.

Input parameters:

- `asset` (string, required): Ticker, name, or alias, e.g. "BTC", "gold", "Nvidia"
- `metrics` (array): Optional metric names, e.g. ["sortino", "max drawdown"]. Default: return, CAGR, volatility, Sharpe, Sortino, max drawdown
- `window` (string): 1y, long (5Y or since inception), or both (default)

Output parameters:

- `alternatives` (array): Other covered assets that also match the query
- `asset` (object)
- `benchmarks` (array)
- `candidates` (array)
- `data_through` (string): Data-through date (YYYY-MM-DD) of the cited figures
- `methodology_url` (string)
- `notes` (array)
- `source_url` (string): Canonical Gale page holding these figures
- `status` (string)
- `windows` (array)

### `get_downside_risk` (~108 tokens)

Downside and tail risk for an asset

Gale Finance's published downside risk for one asset: daily 5% VaR, expected shortfall, skew and excess kurtosis, the largest drawdown episodes with peak/trough/recovery dates, 1Y max drawdown, and best/worst day from a published compare page. Example: "What are the tail risks for bitcoin?".

Input parameters:

- `asset` (string, required): Ticker, name, or alias, e.g. "BTC", "silver", "TSLA"

Output parameters:

- `alternatives` (array)
- `asset` (object)
- `best_worst_day`
- `candidates` (array)
- `data_through` (string): Data-through date (YYYY-MM-DD) of the cited figures
- `drawdown_episodes` (array)
- `max_drawdown_1y`
- `methodology_url` (string)
- `notes` (array)
- `source_url` (string): Canonical Gale page holding these figures
- `status` (string)
- `tail_risk`

### `compare_assets` (~170 tokens)

Compare two assets' performance and risk

Compare two assets using Gale Finance's published pair pages: the rolling 1Y compare (default), a calendar-year compare (horizon "2024"), or the long-term scorecard with year-by-year returns (horizon "long_term"). Pairs resolve in either order and keep the cited page's A/B labels. When Gale has no pair page, returns each asset's own metrics side by side and says pair figures are not published. Example: "How has gold performed vs bitcoin historically?".

Input parameters:

- `asset_a` (string, required): First asset: ticker, name, or alias
- `asset_b` (string, required): Second asset: ticker, name, or alias
- `horizon` (string): "1y" (default), a calendar year such as "2024", or "long_term"

Output parameters:

- `ambiguous_side` (string)
- `asset_a` (object)
- `asset_b` (object)
- `available_horizons` (array): Horizons Gale publishes for this pair: 1y, calendar years, long_term
- `best_worst_day` (object)
- `best_worst_year` (object)
- `candidates` (array)
- `correlation`
- `correlation_yearly` (array)
- `data_through` (string): Data-through date (YYYY-MM-DD) of the cited figures
- `drawdowns` (object)
- `horizon_note`
- `method_notes` (array)
- `methodology_url` (string)
- `metrics` (array)
- `notes` (array)
- `orientation_note`
- `overall_winner`
- `per_asset_windows` (array)
- `period`
- `requested_horizon` (string)
- `rolling_returns` (array)
- `source_kind` (string)
- `source_label` (string): Which published Gale source the figures come from
- `source_url` (string): Canonical Gale page holding these figures
- `source_urls` (array)
- `status` (string)
- `win_tally`
- `year_by_year` (array)

### `rank_assets_by_metric` (~201 tokens)

Rank assets by a risk or return metric

Rank the assets Gale Finance covers by one published metric (return, cagr, volatility, sharpe, sortino, max_drawdown, var_5, es_5, skew, excess_kurtosis), optionally filtered by asset type. Each row carries its value, window dates, and Gale page. Example: "Which crypto had the best Sharpe last year?".

Input parameters:

- `asset_type` (string): Filter by asset type: crypto, stock, etf, commodity, stablecoin, or index
- `limit` (integer): Rows to return, 1-25 (default 10)
- `metric` (string, required): Metric name, e.g. "sharpe", "Sortino ratio", "max drawdown"
- `order` (string): desc (default, highest first) or asc
- `window` (string): 1y (default) or long (5Y or since inception; not like-for-like)

Output parameters:

- `asset_type`
- `data_through` (string): Data-through date (YYYY-MM-DD) of the cited figures
- `glossary_url`
- `method_note` (string)
- `methodology_url` (string)
- `metric` (string)
- `metric_label` (string)
- `notes` (array)
- `order` (string)
- `rows` (array)
- `source_url` (string): Canonical Gale page holding these figures
- `status` (string)
- `total_ranked` (number)
- `window` (string)

### `find_assets` (~137 tokens)

Find assets Gale covers

Search the assets Gale Finance covers by ticker or name and list, for each, its asset page and the published pair comparisons, calendar-year pages, and long-term scorecards. Omit query to page through all coverage. Example: "Do you cover Hyperliquid?".

Input parameters:

- `asset_type` (string): Filter by asset type: crypto, stock, etf, commodity, stablecoin, or index
- `cursor` (string): next_cursor from a previous find_assets call with the same query
- `query` (string): Ticker or name, e.g. "HYPE" or "gold". Omit to list everything

Output parameters:

- `asset_type`
- `data_through` (string): Data-through date (YYYY-MM-DD) of the cited figures
- `methodology_url` (string)
- `next_cursor`: Opaque cursor for the next page; only valid for this snapshot and query
- `offset` (number)
- `query`
- `results` (array)
- `source_url` (string): Canonical Gale page holding these figures
- `status` (string)
- `total_matches` (number)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/finance-gale-market-metrics/www#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 71
- 2026-11-04: 70
- 2026-11-03: 70

## Common questions

### What is the Gale Finance MCP server?

Gale Finance is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as finance.gale/market-metrics. Risk and return metrics for stocks, ETFs, crypto and commodities, with citable Gale Finance sources. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://www.gale.finance/mcp).

### Is the Gale Finance MCP server safe to use?

Gale Finance scores 71 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Gale Finance MCP server expose?

Gale Finance exposes 5 tools: get_risk_return_metrics, get_downside_risk, compare_assets, rank_assets_by_metric, find_assets. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 800 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Gale Finance MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Gale Finance without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Gale Finance MCP server still maintained?

Gale Finance is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://www.gale.finance/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/sidko/gale-finance-mcp
- Website: https://www.gale.finance/tools/mcp/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/finance-gale-market-metrics/www.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/finance-gale-market-metrics/www.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/finance-gale-market-metrics/www